Hi, 

 

I have a 2018 superb with from park sensors, front assist and ACC.

 

When I pull up to an object front park activates. Speaker icon is white, and what I think is "autobrake" is orange. Is orange on or off? If I switch it to white, next time to turns back to orange? Is this normal?

 

I have Front assist send to "Early", but it hardly ever seems to activate. I think I have only seen the first warning on the maxidot come up once since Ive owned the car. If I push it any more I will be in the back of someone, so I am pretty sure it is not picking up? I assume if I put my foot on the brake as I come up to a car it will not activate at all, even if I would not stop in time. How are others systems behaving? Not having driven front assist before I dont know what is usual.

 

 

Ur parking sensors will automatically activate when u get close to an object while traveling below 15 km/h.

 

Auto-hold is active when it's amber.  It will remember this state ever after turning the car off.

 

Start-stop is inactive when its amber.  The car will always revert to active state (not amber) everytime the car is started.  Unless u've disabled start-stop, or in my case - fitted a Start-stop memory module.

It all sounds normal; the first front assist warning will be uncomfortably close at higher speeds, I rarely see it. It uses the same radar sensor as ACC so if that works, so does front assist.

 

You can activate/deactivate the manouevre braking in the Parking and Manouevring menu, I think white is on so perhaps you have it deactivated by default.

On 09/03/2021 at 09:24, D402 said:

It all sounds normal; the first front assist warning will be uncomfortably close at higher speeds, I rarely see it. It uses the same radar sensor as ACC so if that works, so does front assist.

 

You can activate/deactivate the manouevre braking in the Parking and Manouevring menu, I think white is on so perhaps you have it deactivated by default.

 

Right. I seem to have works Manoeuvre braking out.  it doesnt activate at slow speeds, and brake too late at fast speeds. This is  good video to explain 

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I have yet to sort Front assist out. 

 

It is set to "early warning" and generally seems to never activate a pre warning (ACC is working ok though). However, occasionally I have managed to get it to activate (it good time) when I run up fast to another car.

 

Checking the manual, as far as I can work out between 5 km/h to 45km/h, the system triggers an automatic braking, but no pre warning.  This is more difficult to test if it is working, but we will assume it does for the moment.

 

Above 30km/h (18.75mph) it should give the pre warning if coming up to a moving or stationary object.  I am not sure if you touch the brake / throttle it switches off. Has anyone worked this out? Logically though it should still work if you are braking to warn you are not braking hard enough. It all seems very hit and miss.

It works to stop you crashing into something, not stop you a comfortable distance from the object, you would have to be pretty brave to test it to the full extent!

 

When it's decided to brake on your behalf, if you press the throttle it seems to override braking intervention and you can carry on - I've had this on a roundabout where it thinks I'm about to crash into a car that's actually stopped in another lane.

 

If you're already braking it will intervene with a warning if it thinks you're not slowing enough before you reach the object. I assume it would take over the braking if you didn't react

I’ve had mine trigger several times, almost all of them have been not necessary as I was either already braking and would’ve stopped easily in time or things like a car stopped in front when I’m already about to move out and around it.

it has saved me once in the last situation where a car pulled out of a right side junction while I was moving around a poorly positioned parked car (just before said junction!) and a couple of times when reversing and it’s stopped me hitting a verge and another parked car (280 power sometimes means reversing is a little quicker than expected...)

as for the adaptive cruise it’s brilliant and set at either 2 or 3 (usually 3) it works very well and keeps a good gap. Sometimes it does brake a bit late but I usually cover the pedal just in case anyway so it’s never been a problem and once or twice it’s actually triggered the red warning auto braking even though it was already braking for the car ahead at the roundabout!

I can sometimes get mine to trigger as I come up quickly behind another car, where it beeps and give a initial warning (I have sensitivity set to early warning), however it is not consistent. If it did it consistently it would be great, but  Prob 8 out of 10 times it doesnt react.

 

ACC seems to work ok (it uses the same sensor), but occasionally it doesnt slow when the car in front slows/stop and I have to brake manually. Car is large, straight ahead so should be easy to detect. Prob happened once every ten times?

 

I wonder if there is an issue with the sensor?